avsteele

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by avsteele 8d ago
Interested in the evaluations of anyone actually using this. I tested over the weekend and Astra can - create and modify schematics from instructions - place components and route traces out of the box, just via normal 'computer use&#x2
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by avsteele 12d ago
I use it. It is useful for anyone who has a personal domain from which they'd like to send/receive without needing to migrate off Google entirely. My registrar gives a few email addresses with SMTP support. Then I use GMail's
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by avsteele 3mo ago
What does this have to do with Alibaba? Are you saying Alibaba is the reseller? If not it sounds like you are describing a separate phenomenon.
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by avsteele 5mo ago
It is even worse than the article says. You can, though these dialogs, wind up having folder on your hard drive moved around, have your desktop or other folders which you do not intend to be, cloud-synced. Then you get home and all of a sud
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by avsteele 8mo ago
Obviously ~nobody has read this yet... But I did have a question based on the opening: "If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better than artifi
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by avsteele 8mo ago
I haven't had much success yet with this. My ratings follow. Reading and interpreting datasheets: A- (this has gotten a LOT better in the last year) Give netlist to LLM and ask it to check for errors: C (hit or miss, but useful because
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by avsteele 8mo ago
Lots of this is right, but > and PRC's was to peak emissions by 2030s This appears to be wrong. Peak is supposed to be before 2030. They will not hit it. https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/china/t
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by avsteele 8mo ago
This is not energy output (production, usage), it is that plus an adjustment for the in->out energy efficiency. It would only == production if all energy sources in the mix has the same factor. Because fossil fuels have higher in/ou
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by avsteele 8mo ago
That metric doesn't answer the same question. It isn't saying 18% of their needs are being met by renewables.
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by avsteele 8mo ago
Beautiful pictures. To be clear: China runs on coal and will for the foreseeable future. https://www.iea.org/countries/china https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/coal-consumption-by-count...
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by avsteele 9mo ago
If you want a consequentialist answer: If, for ethical reasons, fewer people were willing to take these jobs, then either salaries would have to rise or the work would be done less effectively. If salaries rise, the business becomes more ex
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by avsteele 9mo ago
> Article Context-free raw #'s "Dollar General stores have failed more than 4,300 government price-accuracy inspections in 23 states since January 2022" Is this a lot or a little? There no context for national chain >
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by avsteele 9mo ago
Article Context-free raw #'s, no comparisons to traditional grocery stores AFAIK. Dad journalism. You should not update on this article unless you have some outside knowledge of the industry. I had AI look into it, it found a national
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by avsteele 10mo ago
Why is this worth doing? What wrong with the status quo? The author does not give any examples of Oracle threatening people for using the JavaScript (tm) name.
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by avsteele 1y ago
Interesting line to draw: - you can record all manner of video in your store... - but you can't process it in this particular way.
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by avsteele 1y ago
The authors largest bullet point is on author identification. What are the arguments against this and do people really feel they outweigh the benefits? My view: I would think given how many code supply chain attacks we've see recently
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by avsteele 1y ago
Malpractice slightly hyperbolic. But anybody relying on Gary's posts in order to be be informed on this subject is being being mislead. This isn't an isolated incident either. People need to be made be aware when you read him it i
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by avsteele 1y ago
Papers make specific conclusions based on specific data. The paper I linked specifically rebuts the conclusions of the paper. Gary makes vague statements that could be interpreted as being related. It is scientific malpractice to write a po
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by avsteele 1y ago
This doesn't rebut anything from the best critique of the Apple paper. https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09250
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by avsteele 1y ago
Many people drive places other (further) than work multiple times a year. "75 mile battery" wouldn't even be good enough for a one-way trip of this kind let alone there and back again.
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by avsteele 1y ago
The authors don't say anything like this that I can see. Their conclusion specifically identifies these as weaknesses of current frontier models. Furthermore we have clearly seen increases in reasoning from previous frontier models to
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by avsteele 1y ago
People are drawing erroneous conclusions from this. My read of this is that the paper demonstrates that given a particular model (and the problems examined with it) that giving more thought tokens does not help on problems above a certain
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by avsteele 1y ago
This is about way more than software. It's all R&D It's effectively 6 years too. You only get to depreciate 10% in 1st year. This might have killed my company if it was around during first years. See my comments on the previou
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by avsteele 1y ago
That isn't the reason. They sunset in the bill so it has a lower CBO score (which calculates costs out to 10 years). If you sunset in the bill after 5 years, even if you know it will get renewed, the apparent cost goes down. Get it?
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by avsteele 1y ago
NOT in professional communication. If you want to run your lab that way, feel free.
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by avsteele 1y ago
We have certain professional communications standards in the scientific community. This isn't a corner bar.
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by avsteele 1y ago
Profanity should not be in the title of scientific articles. Most unprofessional. In addition, titling your article for shock value should be discouraged. The end point will be a degraded discourse.
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by avsteele 1y ago
TSMC's approach here sounds sensible but I don't think it speaks much to QC. It is a pretty different problem domain. The trapped-ion QCs can use much more expensive / less practical lasers and optics and still be useful.
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by avsteele 1y ago
I mean in this case the upside for me is no tariff. I don't mind paying some premium for assembly in USA. Perhaps I'm missing something, but I haven't ever had to 'go over' the board with PCBWay. Maybe why they are
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by avsteele 1y ago
OK, can you name one you've used/been happy with?

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